I apologize to everyone for the looooonnnggg wait for this post. I have swapped out a few hardware components as well as OS for this NAS build. It wasn’t all pretty… and at times it felt frustrating… However, my NAS box and I have lived to tell the story. In this post I will walk [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NAS’
Mar 24
drobo is no good… so I’m building my own NAS [updated]
After a few months work with the drobo and trying to give it NAS capabilities via TonidoPlug. I got it to work, and I’m getting same performance as the droboshare for half the cost. HOWEVER… I’m getting 3-5mb/s Write, and 3-20mb/s Read. The speed fluctuation is related to the limited CPU and I/O resource on [...]
Feb 11
droboshare alternatives – tonidoplug + gigabit switch? [Updated w/ solution]
I have a 2nd generation Drobo with 4TB worth of drives and 2.6TB of usable space. I loved the drobo’s ability to use drives with different sizes, however it is quite useless without any NAS capability. The droboshare adds NAS capability to the drobo for $199 USD, which is an insane price tag for what [...]